Do not compare: what lives is incomparable. | The Poetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org · 143 words · saved by 1 readers
Do not compare: what lives is incomparable. Advertise with Poetry Poetry Magazine Poetry Magazine Archive Submit to Poetry
Share Do not compare: what lives is incomparable. I felt a a kind of tender fear as I took on the plains' equality and the wide sky became my malady. I summoned the air, my serving man, expected from him services or news, made ready to set out, sail on the arc of expeditions that could never start. Where I have most sky I am glad to roam, and a bright sadness will not let me leave Voronezh and its adolescent hills for the clear human hills of Tuscany. March 16, 1937 Copyright Credit: ''Do not compare: what lives is incomparable'' by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Peter France, from Black Earth
saved by
related reading
- If— | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Mythologies | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- from “An Attempt at Jealousy” | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Ozymandiaspoetryfoundation.org
- One Art | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Things I Didn’t Know I Loved by Nâzim Hikmet - Poems | Academy of American Poetspoets.org
- I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Say not the Struggle nought Availeth | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- The More Loving Onepoets.org
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Orpheus Alone | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- jonvonkowallis.com/readers/CHIN5910/178-206-Eliot_Weinberger_%26_Octavia_Paz-Nineteen_Ways_of_Looking_at_Wang_Wei.pdfjonvonkowallis.com